Predictability and Free-will
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 10:36 am
Pedictability and Free-will
Everything we do is the result of the sum of influences on us from within and without. If we knew the whole of history, we could predict everything that is to happen. Except, it is possible that some events can be the result of a throw of the dice, as when we are at a fork in the road and only randomness can decide how we proceed.
Therefore, a basis for unpredictability is needed in order that history may have many paths.
Not being any kind of physicist, I will now talk even more nonsense.
We and other large material objects act in several dimensions together, as in space, time, etc.
At the very fundamentals of matter, sub-atomic. We may well have ‘objects’ or events, that act only in one or two dimensions at a time. In which case an ‘object’ may be in one part of space at one moment and then in another at the next moment, without any evident transition in time. To all intents and purposes this may be randomness as seen at our scale.
If our minds, or the operative element in our brains, can make use of this sub-atomic unpredictability. Then a mental throw of the dice is on the cards. In which case history will be sufficiently full of random events that we cannot predict the future. Free-will in the normal run of things is a phantom, since we must operate on the basis of moral and other influences, or all is chaos.
Everything we do is the result of the sum of influences on us from within and without. If we knew the whole of history, we could predict everything that is to happen. Except, it is possible that some events can be the result of a throw of the dice, as when we are at a fork in the road and only randomness can decide how we proceed.
Therefore, a basis for unpredictability is needed in order that history may have many paths.
Not being any kind of physicist, I will now talk even more nonsense.
We and other large material objects act in several dimensions together, as in space, time, etc.
At the very fundamentals of matter, sub-atomic. We may well have ‘objects’ or events, that act only in one or two dimensions at a time. In which case an ‘object’ may be in one part of space at one moment and then in another at the next moment, without any evident transition in time. To all intents and purposes this may be randomness as seen at our scale.
If our minds, or the operative element in our brains, can make use of this sub-atomic unpredictability. Then a mental throw of the dice is on the cards. In which case history will be sufficiently full of random events that we cannot predict the future. Free-will in the normal run of things is a phantom, since we must operate on the basis of moral and other influences, or all is chaos.